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Americans have become markedly less supportive of legal abortion since President Obama's election. The country is almost evenly split on the contentious issue, while views in both camps appear to be hardening -- a trend that runs counter to Obama's longstanding desire to find common ground on the issue.

The shift is not too surprising given the election of a pro-choice president after two terms of a pro-life president, George W. Bush. Pro-choice forces were galvanized by the challenge Bush posed, and a similar dynamic seems to be occurring now, with religion proving to be an especially potent factor in rallying opponents of abortion.

A lot of times, the poll results are different due to how the question is asked.

If you ask "Is abortion morally wrong?" you'll get a different result than asking "Should abortion be legal?".

I really doubt that abortion will ever be re-criminalized in this country, but I think the republicans like to use it to keep christians voting for their party. Sort of the way the democrats use affirmative action to keep blacks voting for their tickets.

If that's the case - then all the dems have to do to win the Christian vote would be to go anti-abortion. Do you HONESTLY think it's that simple?

Actually it is that simple for me. As conservative as I am, if Barack obama had been anti-abortion and vowed to criminalize it I would've voted for him in a heartbeat, regardless of all his other radical positions. Abortion is the biggest issue for me right now. I know it's easy to get desensitized to it because it's so common, but we can't lose sight of the fact an actual legalized genocide is going on in our country right now, on the most helpless, hopeless of all. And that tops any other moral issue I can think of.